Field Photographs
Museum: | BM |
Media Title: | Field Photographs |
Description: | Woolley: Alabaster mace-heads from TTB 17. Nos. U. 208, U. 206, U. 207. AJ: Alabaster mace-heads and vase of Ur-Engur and Rimush. |
Project: | Ur |
Photo Type: | GN |
Negative or Positive: | Negative |
BM Negative Number: | 15 |
BM Photo ID: | GN0015 |
PM U Print No.: | 15 |
Comments: | |
PS Negative: | 42630 |
Antiquaries Journal: | III/4 XXXII 1 |
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Excavations at Ur: | |
Ur of the Chaldees: | |
Additional Comments: | vases of Ur-Engur and Rimush |
Related People: | |
Location Description: | TTB |
Object | U Number | Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) | Museum Number (BM Registration Number) | Museum Number (UPM B-number) | Description (Catalog Card) |
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208 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Mace head. White marble. Complete, but top moulding and one side chipped, and part of inscription missing. [Annotated] Dedication of mace head to Nannar bu Ur-Engur for his life. (1) Nannar. (2) lugal-a-ui. (3) Ur-Engur. (4) mtah-kal-gu. (5) lugal Uri-ki-ma. (6) lugal Ki-en-gi ki-uri ge. (7) (uam ti) - la-ui-su. (8) (um) - na-du. [Annotated] Baghdad | |
207 | (none) | (none) | B14932 | Mace-head Alabaster. Complete, except that top moulding is chipped away. Inscribed: [Annotated] Rimush king of Kish. | |
206 | (none) | (none) | B14933 | Mace-head, Alabaster half of Decorated with rope moulding in relief & inscribed: [Annotated] "To Sin, Rimush king of the world, when he had overthrown Elam and Barahse dedicated this from the Elamite booty" Duplicate of an inscription found at Nippur on a vase. See SAKI p. 162 (c) Vase C. [Annotated] Phil Photo 15 [Annotated] Duplicates - 206 [Crossed out] U.236 |
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Location | Context Title | Context Description | Description (Modern) |
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TTB | TTB is shorthand for Trial Trench B, one of two trenches excavated in Woolley's first season at Ur in 1922. This one was about 4 meters wide by about 60 meters long and ended up almost entirely within the e-nun-mah, a building that went through many forms over the centuries. The trench was expanded to reveal the building and extra abbreviations were added to it to indicate portions, roughly in directional notation from the main trench. The trench cut the building close to the west corner and TTB.W became the abbreviation for this area beyond the trench itself. TTB.SS and TTB.ES covered the larger area to the south and east. The abbreviation ES was then used in later seasons to refer to the majority of the building and a small portion of the area to the south of it. The enunmah itself was a complicated structure that seems to have changed function from storeroom (originally called the ganunmah) to temple through its long history. Woolley began assigning room numbers within the abbreviation TTB, but these excavation room numbers do not correlate precisely with the published room numbers. | (none) |
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